"Why me?" has been the perennial complaint of the sick, kicking against the unfairness of it all. Society, by contrast, has been all too ready to point to the moral behind the malady. Leprosy and plague revealed God's wrath, syphilis was the wages of lust, cholera the punishment of the poor for their squalid ways, and gout that of the rich for swilling too much port—and so on, all the way to AIDS.
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